# SPENCE EL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480771010724`
- **School name**: SPENCE EL
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77067
- **Address**: 1300 GEARS RD
- **District**: ALDINE ISD (LEAID `4807710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 1–5
- **Coordinates**: 29.94729, -95.43995
- **Phone**: (281)539-4050

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 686
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: C
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - overall: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - overall_score: 68

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 43.3% proficient — 736 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 16.6% proficient, 4.3% advanced — 736 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 42.0% proficient — 312 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 39.8% proficient — 108 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 42.9% proficient — 112 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 43.5% proficient — 92 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 17.6% proficient, 5.1% advanced — 312 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 17.6% proficient, 4.6% advanced — 108 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 20.5% proficient, 6.2% advanced — 112 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 14.1% proficient, 4.3% advanced — 92 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 49.7% proficient — 316 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 54.6% proficient — 108 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 49.1% proficient — 112 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 44.8% proficient — 96 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 18.4% proficient, 5.1% advanced — 316 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 18.5% proficient, 5.6% advanced — 108 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 17.0% proficient, 3.6% advanced — 112 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 19.8% proficient, 6.2% advanced — 96 tested
- **School Progress**: 57.0% proficient
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 28.7% proficient — 108 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.4% (198 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.0% (139 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 5
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 64.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 33.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.2% — 61 students
- **English Learners**: 48.6% — 322 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,866
- **Federal share**: $1,428
- **State + local share**: $7,438
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 656
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,073,272
- **Federal share**: 23.6%
- **State share**: 42.7%
- **Local share**: 33.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,825,240

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,881
- **Poverty rate**: 18.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,297
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.7 miles (JONES ROAD GROUND WATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 55
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.98 miles (NORTH HOUSTON TIRE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.9783 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **DAVIS H S ALDINE** — 0.7 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 0.6%)
- **IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.6%)
- **IDEA SPEARS COLLEGE PREPARATORY** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.6%)
- **HERITAGE EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.6%)
- **JOAN LINK EL** — 1.5 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 0.6%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/spence-el-houston/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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